Hi Peter. I will reply here as I have not received your last email (it will probably arrive in the next days as I am subscribed to soekris-tech, but at this time it is not in my inbox).
In short, I will advice against flashing the net4801 with a comBIOS release for the net5501 or other Soekris board. In the best case, you will win nothing; in the worst, it will become a brick and this change will probably void the warranty. If you have set up the internal HDD as cable-select you can choose what device is master or slave in the comBIOS (there are problems with some CF cards, but with most cards, e.g. SanDisk ones, it just works). In any case, if you are sure the CF card is master and the HDD is slave, all is fine. You should see both drives when the net4801 is booting (comBIOS will tell you what the current setup is, just before enumerating the PCI devices). My advice is setting the HDD as cable-select, as this way you will be able to swap CF/HDD from the comBIOS, without opening the net4801. If you plan to boot from the disk drive, I would make the CF slave and the HDD master. There is, perhaps, a problem in Fedora. You can either install another operating system on the net4801, ask the problem to be fixed, look for a workaround on a Fedora mailing list or newsgroup, or stay at version 6. In any case, I will certainly advice against upgrading the comBIOS to a release made for other board. I think that there is nothing in changelog.txt for releases 1.31b up to 1.32i that make me think is relevant for a net4801. Mostly, fixes for USB 2.0 on the net5501 (the net4801 is USB 1.1), PCI bus and SATA interface. All comBIOS releases share a lot of code, if there is something relevant for a net4801 on the net5501 comBIOS it will be backported. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
